The Park Slope Uniform

Jamzer wrote: The guy's uniform describes me to a tee, but then again, I've worn that uniform since I graduated from college. I still wore it when I lived in New Jersey, DC, Manhattan and now Brooklyn. Maybe I am at the fashon fore front??

I'm with you. Everybody wears that stuff everywhere.

As for the frustration part, that's a bit of a head-scratcher, but ok.

laura wrote: I don't get why people think to be "comfortable" you have to wear yoga pants or something. I work at home, I'm wearing a cotton dress and a sweater, and I couldn't be more comfortable.

I'm really comfortable in a dress and sweater too, but if I'm doing errands on foot, I'm usually wearing sneakers and walking pretty fast. Yoga pants and sneakers are better than most of my dresses with sneakers.

Plus, I'm prone to dropping and/or spilling things when doing errands, and bending over a lot

But I almost always have lipstick on

brooklynpotter wrote: well, i don't like gargantuan legs. normal sized, larger than mine, a bonus if they have freckles

Nevermind the person attached to the legs!

I'm sure you could learn to love large, non-freckeled legs if the right head and torso were attached.

Drano wrote:

As for the frustration part, that's a bit of a head-scratcher, but ok.

IIRC, one of The Chipster's first posts was something to the effect that the men (at least the dads) of Park Slope are sexually frustrated because their wives are fat and sloppy and don't wear high heels, so the men (still hard-bodied and studly, apparently) need to be allowed to sleep around. Or something like that.

Ah, ok. I kind of remember that now that you mention it.

Rose wrote: [quote=Drano]

As for the frustration part, that's a bit of a head-scratcher, but ok.

IIRC, one of The Chipster's first posts was something to the effect that the men (at least the dads) of Park Slope are sexually frustrated because their wives are fat and sloppy and don't wear high heels, so the men (still hard-bodied and studly, apparently) need to be allowed to sleep around. Or something like that.

the fools!

caaahyoko wrote: [quote=brooklynpotter]well, i don't like gargantuan legs. normal sized, larger than mine, a bonus if they have freckles

Nevermind the person attached to the legs!

I'm sure you could learn to love large, non-freckeled legs if the right head and torso were attached.

i have loved large and small legs, freckled and non-freckled, etc etc. it's finding that right head and torso that's the bigger issue, n'est pas?

sorry, i don't know many women who want their man's thighs to be bigger than theirs.

Hello: European soccer players! It's the only reason I watch.

Drano wrote: [quote=Jamzer]The guy's uniform describes me to a tee, but then again, I've worn that uniform since I graduated from college. I still wore it when I lived in New Jersey, DC, Manhattan and now Brooklyn. Maybe I am at the fashon fore front??

I'm with you. Everybody wears that stuff everywhere.

As for the frustration part, that's a bit of a head-scratcher, but ok.
As I read this thread, all I do is scratch my head. What exactly are we talking about...sexless marriages or frumpy fashion slackers?

raw wrote: [quote=Drano][quote=Jamzer]The guy's uniform describes me to a tee, but then again, I've worn that uniform since I graduated from college. I still wore it when I lived in New Jersey, DC, Manhattan and now Brooklyn. Maybe I am at the fashon fore front??

I'm with you. Everybody wears that stuff everywhere.

As for the frustration part, that's a bit of a head-scratcher, but ok.
As I read this thread, all I do is scratch my head. What exactly are we talking about...sexless marriages or frumpy fashion slackers?

Does it matter? Chipster totally missed my point (and proved it at the same time) of my post that he took "park slope uniform" from. Sigh. So much pointless nitpicking around here.

"As I read this thread, all I do is scratch my head"

at least it's giving your b*lls a nice break...

sorry. good line from a movie.

That was good!

This thread caused me to over-think. Outside on 5th Avenue today, I noticed a lot of men with $300 cell phones glued on their heads, while the "old granny underwear" line had me wondering about every woman I passed.

Subject: Note to the hipster-dufus Chipster

If I am getting this correct, you are making a blank, generic and generalized observation of people who live in Park Slope. To be honest, this makes me mad, as I hear a lot of people claiming to know what New York is all about.

You should observe more than you talk.

I can assure you the young hipsters with a certain style in this neighborhood are just fine. Leave them alone, and stop judging.

There is no uniform, no one way to go about this. Its insulting, and your comment is a perfect example of someone who moves to New York without becoming a New Yorker. New Yorkers don't judge, they accept and move on.

DO us all a favor and work on yourself before you start to judge others. Weren't you taught not to judge people on appearances?


Charlesbklyn

Ahhh... to have the elusive "style."

Maybe if I read Details or Vice or Radar or whatever Men's fashion magazines the cool kids are reading today I would be able to emerge from my apartment and people would say " Wow! I like the way that guy wears his pants!" "That's really edgy!"

Don't forget birkenstocks ugh. Crocs another ugh. I also hate men in any sandal. Some PS women who don't shave their legs wearing shorts. White guys w/ rasta braids.

I wear workout clothes during the day when I go to the gym. Fitted jeans/capri's, nice Banana Republic tops, coach purse, vintage jewelry when I'm not at the gym.

Juicy Couture makes a fortune on their version of sweats. Meant for women to wear all day long. Not PS women though.

I've been in PS a looong time and I've seen it all.

charlesbklyn You may not like it but Park Slope does have a certain uniform as do places in the midwest, west coast etc. Heck even Bay Ridge has their own uniform. See Juicy Couture above.

eggcream wrote: I also hate men in any sandal.

Me too.

eggcream wrote: White guys w/ rasta braids.

Gah. My next door neighbor's hair looks like a month's worth of my cats' hairballs ...

eggcream wrote: Juicy Couture makes a fortune on their version of sweats.

Hate that stuff. I think having JUICY written across your ass is SUCH a bad idea.

I think having JUICY written across your ass is SUCH a bad idea.

Word. Especially since most of the women I see wearing JUICY sweats have no ass to speak of at all.

It's false advertising, I tell you, false!

It always makes me think, "Damn! You should get some Imodium for that!"

I really shouldn't say this but the first time I saw a girl with JUICY written across her butt my first thought was of a common effect of food poisoning.

Beat me to it, Carnivore! My browser was hanging up.

I'm relieved I'm not the only one who makes that association, though.

I WISH a Park Slope uniform existed. Having to figure out how to match my shirts and pants everyday is a pain in the butt.

You need Garanimals.

I have a confession.. I am wearing a juicy couture hoodie that I bought on e bay.. new.. but at a great price. The fit on this garment is perfect. The cut just slings to good places but is not tight and feels good against the body and looks really sweet. It is comfortable and soft fabric and yes the ends of the tassles say"juicy" but it doesn't bother me at all. Now if that word were on my butt it would lok pretty silly on a58 yar old woman!!

You are absolved, especially since you bought it on eBay.

Oh Laura .. thank you.. and I feel so much better.. I might wear this again tomorrow if the weather is right for a layer.. But, indeed I have an insight.. I Have 2 insights..

1. There is no PS uniform.. This is such a special neighborhood and everyone is unique... and the way that WE dress does make other people want to imitate us and THAT is the beginning of fashion trends..
2. I think the moderators finally realized that Drunker Guest is not an asset to this forum and removed him, banished him foresver.. gee I hope so. Verification of the possibility that this is true.. My post about Drunken remained.. and his nasty, mean spirited post has gone....gone.. If what I perceive is true.. so be it!!!!

Good riddance to bad rubbish!!!

Oh my gosh,,,, I think I have proof positive..
In the last 15 minutes MY post about Drunken Guest is gone1...
If this be true... as well my reality is a true one.. DRUNKEN might be gone forever..

I hate when people get all in a huff.

See, this is why I was saying that Chipster missed my point. The point was that all sorts of people wear certain clothes to show that they belong to a certain group of people for whatever reason. It exists everywhere in every neighborhood, in every city...e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e. The behavior is, in my opinion, silly regardless of where it exists.
Clothing does not have to be something you are into or care passionately about, but it is sad when people try to change who they are by deliberately wearing something.
What's wrong with who you really are?

I don't think people (those who have graduated from high school, at any rate) are trying to change who they are. People feel simpatico with other people who share their tastes and outlook and one of the ways this commonality is naturally expressed is through style, and it's an important social cue.

What I think is sad is when people try to change what someone ELSE is wearing, like on that horrible show "How Do I Look?", where two friends or family members of the victim are embarrassed by how he/she looks ... sometimes the person does really dress horribly, but many times their "friends" just want to change them into someone else. Fr'instance, there was one very pale, black-haired girl with a kind of Goth Minnie Mouse look, and her dipshit sisters - who probably wished they were Paris and Nicky - couldn't bear to be seen with her. The poor woman ended up with a spray-on tan, a blonde-highlighted Hollywood 'do, and some stupid trendy outfits, and her disgusted boyfriend said that if she'd looked like that when he'd met her he never would have spoken to her.

When my WBurg friend saw a woman in a short skirt & heels on she said, "She looks lost."
"I've never seen pantyhose in the slope before!"
"Are those real?" she asked, pointing at her legs.
"I dunno, never seen em before," I said as I snapped her thong.
"Women around here only dress up when they leave?" she asked twirling around in her dress.
"Theoretically... but it can't be proven," I said as I nursed my animal companion.
Then the beautiful woman bent over and gave a b.j. to the dad who was drooling on his wife's head.

Love,
A Native New Yorker,
(Charles, pls. make sure to cut and paste your "New Yorkers don't judge" declaration on the following posts__________, _____, _____________)
Not in a Huff,
Not in makeup,
Observing and being Observed,
Who never says SHOULD, as in "Men should (?!) "cheat" on their wives, but am AMAZED you guys remember it at all, even if wrongly.

The Chipster wrote: When my WBurg friend saw a woman in a short skirt & heels on she said, "She looks lost."
"I've never seen pantyhose in the slope before!"
"Are those real?" she asked, pointing at her legs.
"I dunno, never seen em before," I said as I snapped her thong.
"Women around here only dress up when they leave?" she asked twirling around in her dress.
"Theoretically... but it can't be proven," I said as I nursed my animal companion.
Then the beautiful woman bent over and gave a b.j. to the dad who was drooling on his wife's head.

Love,
A Native New Yorker,
(Charles, pls. make sure to cut and paste your "New Yorkers don't judge" declaration on the following posts__________, _____, _____________)
Not in a Huff,
Not in makeup,
Observing and being Observed,
Who never says SHOULD, as in "Men should (?!) "cheat" on their wives, but am AMAZED you guys remember it at all, even if wrongly.

This whole bit has made my head explode.

I'm serious, my entire cranium just violently ruptured after attempting to parse that post; the walls of my apt. are covered with fragments of skull and brain, and I am only able to type this out using basic muscle memory.